"What's going on?!"
The sudden, strange sound startled Feng Qian. He cursed inwardly and turned to return to the Tian family 302.
In the living room of 302, Tian's father and mother had changed their positions. They had been standing next to the sofa, but now they had moved forward a little, getting closer and closer to Feng Qian and the others.
It seemed that the two of them moved quietly when they weren't looking.
A young police officer, who had never witnessed anything so bizarre, felt his legs go weak, but remained calm. He drew his pistol, chambered a round, released the safety, and asked, "Captain, what should we do now?"
"Bang--"
Without the slightest hesitation, Feng Qian raised his gun, pulled the trigger, and aimed at Mr. and Mrs. Tian in the living room, shooting each of them in the leg.
After two gunshots, Tian's parents were hit in the legs. Strangely, their wounds did not bleed, but instead splattered some congealed black blood clots.
Losing their balance, the farmers fell to the ground, smiles still on their faces. In the instant they fell, they seemed to melt away, slowly sinking into the shadows of the ground.
Upon seeing this, Feng Qian disregarded everything else and immediately ran towards the window. Although the situation was extremely bizarre, he was, after all, a seasoned policeman, and his reaction speed remained sharp even in a crisis.
He ran to the window, turned to his subordinates, and shouted, "Don't stand there! Get ready to jump out the window and escape!"
What happened here was too bizarre and beyond common sense. The two identical father and mother, who were injured, would blend into the shadows. This situation was beyond the capabilities of an ordinary police officer. He had to get the news out and report it immediately.
It was already quite remarkable that Feng Qian was able to react quickly, remain calm, and think of a way to escape by jumping out of the window.
This is the third floor, not too high. If you jump down, you might not die, but you'll definitely be seriously injured.
Several police officers gathered by the window. When they looked back, the couple who had been working outside the stairwell had unknowingly moved into the room, their eerie smiles unchanged.
"Tie the curtains and coat together to make a simple makeshift device to lower the height from which you jump!" Feng Qian instructed, then took off his coat first, ripped off the curtains, and quickly tied them into a survival rope.
The height of a three-story building is about 8 to 9 meters. Every meter shorter the rope is, the less damage will be. Feng Qian is now hoping that the rope is long enough to shorten the distance by even one meter, so that he can suffer less injury when he jumps.
After throwing the survival rope out the window, Feng Qian took two deep breaths and was about to climb out when suddenly a strong wind blew outside, causing him to stagger and instinctively take a half-step back.
The wind came too suddenly, but Feng Qian did not intend to give up. Just as he was about to try to jump out of the window for the second time, a rotting face with its eyes rolled back suddenly pressed against the glass outside the window.
"What is that?!"
Feng Qian was startled by the sudden face-jumping and almost fell, but he quickly composed himself and gripped the gun tightly.
Outside the window was a woman, or more accurately, a female corpse— Tian Tian, who had been missing for a long time.
With Tian Tian's arrival, a chilling wind and the sound of weeping echoed throughout the entire apartment building.
Perhaps influenced by the crying, the Tian parents, who were like wax figures in the room, moved and stiffly but quickly rushed towards Feng Qian and the others.
Feng Qian inwardly screamed like a groundhog, but outwardly remained calm, raised his gun, flicked his finger, and fired a bullet.
Unfortunately, his bullets had no effect this time. When they hit Mr. and Mrs. Tian, it was as if they had hit a thick steel plate, leaving only a small dent in their skin.
At the same time, Tian Tian, who was floating outside the window, raised her scarred hand and gently knocked on the window. Her face showed an extremely sad expression, and the crying in the room grew louder and louder.
"Ah, ah, ghosts! Die, all of you! Die!"
The crying seemed to have a disorienting effect, and Feng Qian was able to barely maintain his composure, but one of his young subordinates broke down, shouting and yelling, and wildly firing his gun at the farmers, but to no avail.
"So... it really really was haunted..."
Feng Qian slumped against the wall with a bitter smile, a look of despair on his face. He glanced at Tian Tian crying outside the window, then at Tian's parents who were approaching them, and felt that he was going to die here today.
"Rather than being tormented to death by ghosts, I'd rather end it all and get it over with!" Feng Qian thought disheartened.
He didn't know if he would be tortured and die a painful death after being caught by a ghost, and he didn't dare to gamble on that probability, so he raised his gun and pointed it at himself.
Faced with life and death, he ultimately hesitated, unable to pull the trigger for a long time.
Suddenly, a thought flashed through his mind, and he remembered Li Hua, who had collapsed at the entrance of the residential area.
Both Li Hua and Li Hua encountered ghosts, but after fainting, Li Hua was only unconscious for a while and suffered some fright; he did not die.
Perhaps these ghosts are just scary-looking and won't actually harm people?
Seemingly having found another chance to survive, Feng Qian lowered the gun he had pointed at himself and decided to confront these monsters head-on.
Tian Tian's cries outside the window grew louder and louder, and her parents in the living room were getting closer and closer to them, almost touching them.
Just then, an unexpected event occurred.
A thick plume of black smoke billowed in from the window, like ink, and enveloped the three members of the Tian family.
Tian Tian stopped crying and stopped banging on the window. Her body twisted, and her flesh began to rot and fall off, leaving clumps of dirt on the glass, eventually turning into a skeleton.
The same changes occurred in the farming parents in the living room.
The three members of the Tian family turned into skeletons, and these three skeletons were eventually swallowed up by black smoke, as if they had entered another world and disappeared completely.
Feng Qian looked out the window and saw a woman dressed in ordinary sportswear floating in mid-air, surrounded by swirling black smoke, as if the smoke was lifting her up.
Her appearance was above average, but in this atmosphere, it only added to her eerie and sinister beauty.
The woman looked at Feng Qian, which immediately made him instinctively tense.
"I've already eliminated the ghosts here; you can handle the cleanup yourselves."
Just as Feng Qian was about to ask something, the mysterious woman vanished in the blink of an eye. The scene unfolded so quickly, mysteriously and magically, that Feng Qian was even momentarily overwhelmed by this novel information and lost his ability to think.
It took him a long time to come to his senses.